“To rejoice in the prosperity of another is to partake of it.”
W. Austin
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“Be nice to people on the way up because you will meet them again on your way down.”
Wilson Mizner (1875-1933), US playwright and author
Jesus said the widow gave more with her two coins than the rich gave, because they were just tossing God a tip. They kept the big wads in their wallets. But the widow kept nothing back (Mark 12:41:44).
“The yardstick for measuring success would seem to be not how much a man gets as how much he has to give away.”
Conrad N. Hilton (1887-1979), founder of the Hilton hotel chain.
“You have not done enough: you have never done enough so long as it is still possible that you have something to contribute.”
Dag Hammarskjöld, statesman and holder of the Nobel Peace Prize
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank (1929-1945), World War II holocaust victim and author of The Anne Frank Diary.
The greatest return on investment comes from your investing in other people.
Give God what’s right, not what’s left.
“God has given us things not to hold, but to use and share.”
Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Giving is a virtuous circle.
It’s fine to offer a helping hand but better still to help people to let go of it.
He who gives quickly, gives kindness twice to the needy.
Publilius Syrus (c. 43BC)
Real charity isn’t concerned whether it’s deductible or not.
When you give out of your shortage, it’s like the outgoing tide; it will (eventually) return to you in abundance. The Bible says, “Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.” – Ecclesiastes 11:1 NIV1984
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans!
God is not committed to anything other than His foreordained plan for your life.
Bob Gass
One with God is the majority.
“People whose goals are aligned with their values achieve more satisfaction and fulfilment in life… Choose your mountain not for its summit, but for the climb. Enjoy the process.
Jinny Ditzler, author and coach
“When it comes to setting goals, the weakest ink is better than the strongest of memories.”
Colin Turner, author
“Give me a stock clerk with a goal and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals and I will give you a stock clerk.”
J. C. Penney (1875-1971), American retailer and philanthropist
“Plans get you into things but you’ve got to work your way out.”
Will Rogers (1879-1935), American humourist and actor
“We all have two choices: We can make a living or we can design a life.”
Jim Rohn
“My interest is in the future, because I’m going to spend the rest of my life there.” – Charles F. Kettering (1876-1958), inventor
“A man’s reach should exceed his grasp or what’s a heaven for?”
Robert Browning
‘One-Day-I’ll’ is a fairy tale: an imaginary time and place.
There should be no such thing as a person being completely contented. People become stale when their goals and present status are at one with each other.
‘GOSSIP’ – even the very word itself hisses when you say it.
When you throw mud at someone, you’re the one who is losing ground.
Psalm 119v105 is a “tea-towel” verse – that is, it’s known and loved by many; but it is often taken out of context: The rest of the stanza helps us to work out what it means… look at verses 106, 109 and 112. Is the writer concerned only with guidance when life is unclear, or with obedience?
Anon
Oswald Chambers wrote: “If we are saved and sanctified God guides us by our ordinary choices, and if we are going to choose what He does not want, he will check, and we must heed. Whenever there is doubt stop at once. Never reason it out and say – ‘I wonder why I shouldn’t do this?’ – God instructs us in what we choose, that is, He guides our common sense.”
Oswald Chambers, My Utmost For His Highest, (2000 edition), Worcester: Oswald Chambers Publications, p.161
“It is not what a man does that determines whether or not his work is sacred or secular, it is why he does it. The motive is everything.”
A. W. Tozer
Question: How can you tell if something is God’s will? – Answer: If the desire is from God it will remain, but if it’s of man it will fade away.
God is far more concerned with how we live, than where we live or how we earn a crust!
Habit is by habit overcome.
Thomas à Kempis
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.”
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Happy is person man who wants what they have; who is appreciative and grateful for their many blessings.
Those who wish to sing always find a song. – Scandinavian saying
A genuine smile – not a smirk – always creates rolls of fat under your eyes. Check it out for yourself: Get in front of a mirror and give your face a joy ride.
“The most wasted of all days is that during which one has not laughed.”
Nicolas Chamford (1741-1794), French writer
“Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.”
Helen Keller (1880-1968), US author and lecturer, blind and deaf from infancy
S.M.I.L.E. – Smiling More Increases Life Expectancy
R. Ian Seymour
A smile is such a powerful tool; you can even break ice with it!
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”
Confucius (551-479 B.C.) ancient Chinese philosopher and teacher.
Happiness is a decision; as Abraham Lincoln once said: “I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
Material things can’t make you truly happy, people can’t make you truly happy, situations and places and times and events can’t make you truly happy. It is only when you allow yourself to be happy will you then be happy.
Laughter adds years to your life and life to your years.
“This is the true joy in life; being used for a purpose recognised by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown out on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), dramatist and critic
Smile and add to your face value.
“Too much of a good thing is wonderful.”
Mae West (1892-1980), film actress
“Cessationism is a hypothesis. It is not a teaching grounded in Holy Scripture – like the virgin birth, the deity of Christ, the resurrection of Jesus, and salvation by the blood of God’s Son. Cessationists have chosen to believe that God does not reveal Himself directly and immediately today.”
R.T. Kendall
R.T. Kendall, Holy Fire, 2014, Florida: Charisma House, p.113
‘The Bible does not model just one always applicable always correct way to pray for the sick. However, it does present some principles to apply, such as interviewing a person to find out what is wrong. Jesus did this. He also modelled receiving revelation from the Father regarding what to do. Jesus varied the ways He chose to minister and modelled a process of prayer selection based on the condition He was dealing with. He did not minister to the demonized in the same way He ministered to the sick or broken hearted. He also modelled what to do when healing did not happen immediately – He re-interviewed the person and prayed again. He modelled what to do when an evil spirit does not come out when first commanded – He continued to tell it to come out.’ The principles we’re to apply when praying for the sick can be itemised like this:
- Interview – Where does it hurt? Why does this person have this condition?
- Diagnosis and Prayer Selection – How do I pray into this?
- Prayer Ministry: Praying for Effect – Speaking with authority; telling the body what to do.
- Stop and Re-interview – Ask how are they doing? Keep going for as long as they let you (from 10 to zero).
- Post-Prayer Suggestions – What next?
[Note: The Essential Guide to Healing by Bill Johnson & Randy Clark, p219.]
The Essential Guide to Healing by Bill Johnson & Randy Clark, p219
“If a man doesn’t take care of No.1, he will soon have 0 to take care of.”
Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English novelist
Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we diet!
The only exercise some people take is jumping to wrong conclusions.
If you listen for the whispers you won’t have to hear the screams. – Cherokee Indian saying.
Prevention is better than cure
I’m on a strict sea food diet. I just see food and I eat it!
I’m in shape… round is a shape.
One of the mysteries of life is how a two-pound box of chocolates can make you gain five pounds in weight!
“If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.”
Mickey Mantle
“I’m not fat, I’m a nutritional overachiever.”
Anon.
“May the wind at your back never be your own.”
Jack Lemmon (1925-2001), actor
“Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.”
Benjamin Franklin
“SLIP, SLAP, SLOP! – Slip on a shirt. Slap on some cream. Slop on a hat.”
(Advertising campaign by the Australian government warning against over-exposure to the sun)
Graveyards are full of people who died before their time because they literally ran themselves into the ground, six feet under, that is!
Life passes by with the blink of an eye: Learn to be still and stare awhile.
It’s better to put it in the waste than on my waist. It’s better to put it in the bin than on my chin!
“Pause and feel the feet in your shoes.” – Vietnamese proverb
“Some people take more care of their pets than they do themselves. Their animals can run like the wind and yet they can barely make it up a flight of stairs.” – Anon
“A sickbed teaches more than a sermon.”
Thomas Watson (1874-1956), founder of IBM Corporation
Death is not a full stop – it is only a comma.
Stephen Gaukroger writes: ‘The burning flames of hell mentioned in the Bible may be picture language, but the reality that they represent is no figment of the imagination.’
Stephen Gaukroger, It Makes Sense, p.95
Life is a grindstone: You can either let it grind you down or polish you up.
“Life is like a roller-coaster: Riding the highs would be worthless if it weren’t for the lows.”
Anon
By his Holy Spirit, the Lord wants to work in us (Philippians 2:13), through us (Mark 16:20), and for us (Romans 8:28).
If you have that flame of a dream down inside you somewhere, thank God for it, and do something about it. And don’t let anyone else blow it out.
Rich DeVos, founder Amway Corporation
Sometimes you’ve got to stop hoping and simply start coping!
Meekness is not weakness.
“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
attributed to Kimberly Johnson
“Things have become that bad where I live that even the Samaritans have gone ex-directory!”
Anon
“The longer a man is inactive in resisting, the weaker each day he grows in himself, and the enemy stronger against him.”
Thomas à Kempis
Source: Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, p.37
“Laziness is a mood or a pose: It’s like a coat, you can take it off whenever you decide to. Activity breeds productivity. Get busy and you’ll get business.”
Tom Hopkins
Many a pair of shoes are worn out between the words ‘saying’ and ‘doing’.
“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a crisis of morality retain their position of neutrality.”
J. F. Kennedy
“Better to wear out than rust out.”
Richard Cumberland (1631-1718), English bishop, theologian and philosopher
Rust ruins more tools than overuse.
Too much sunshine makes a desert.
Arabian proverb
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it.
“You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.”
Henry Ford (1863-1947)
God has already recorded your departure date so whatever you plan to do, get going!
Bob Gass
“An ostrich may think it is safe by sticking its head in the sand but think for a moment how vulnerable it looks with its backside sticking up in the air!”
Roy Sheppard, author and speaker
Some people just whittle away their time, others carve out a future for themselves.
“I never remember feeling tired by work, though idleness exhausts me completely.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), British author, creator of Sherlock Holmes
“Years of teaching a child to be honest and truthful may be nullified in an instant by a parent’s lying to a ticket-seller about the child’s age to save half-fare. That can be an exceedingly expensive ticket for both the child and the parent.”
William George Jordan (1864-1928), writer
Private peccadillo’s always have corporate consequences, eventually.
Don’t just say it, do it. Put your money where your mouth is!
You can’t trust anything your read in the newspapers these days… except the date!
Honesty in little things is no little thing.
Some people say everyone has a price but people with integrity, real integrity, cannot be bought at any price.
The man who does not stand for something will fall for anything.